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One of the things that the Dems are the parasiters ignore is that Obama wants to increase the tax rate on dividends-earnings which are already taxed heavily at the corporate level-from 15% (highest bracket tax payers) to over 40% for the same people. Thus if you are retired living off of your 45 or so years of investment, your tax could increase almost THREE TIMES

One of the things that the Dems are the parasiters ignore is that Obama wants to increase the tax rate on dividends-earnings which are already taxed heavily at the corporate level-from 15% (highest bracket tax payers) to over 40% for the same people. Thus if you are retired living off of your 45 or so years of investment, your tax could increase almost THREE TIMES

Imagine trying to pay for you Medicare supplement plan with less income. I know my parent pay a hell of a lot more for their supplement than the Medicare part. Medicare covers 80% and their supplement 20%, you should see the bill for that 20%.

"He who does not think himself worth saving from poverty and ignorance by his own efforts, will hardly be thought worth the efforts of anybody else." -- Frederick Douglass, Self-Made Men (1872)
"Fly-over" country voted, and The Donald is now POTUS.